BlaseballCares Showdown

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The BlaseballCares Showdown
By @jrfbz
Dates	December 13th, 2020
Champion	None; cancelled at 1-1 after two games
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The BlaseballCares Showdown was a non-canonical exhibition series held by The Game Band during the Grand Siesta on December 13th, 2020. The Showdown was a two-hour guest segment on the fan-run Blaseball Cares Blaseballidays Holiday Charity Stream, held to raise money for the National Alliance on Mental Illness.

The Showdown was a best-of-3 series between two teams of drafted players; the Danger Zone (managed by Stephen Bell and Elena Murphy) and the Tsushima Ghosts (managed by Roldan Melcon and Sam Rosenthal), with Joel Clark acting as host. Due to time limitations, the series was cancelled at a 1-1 tie after two games.

Teams

Danger Zone

Danger Zone
Home Location	Danger Zone
Team Slogan	"It's our Middle Name."
Emoji	⚠️
Rivals	Tsushima Ghosts

See the main article on this topic: Danger Zone

The Danger Zone were the team representing Stephen Bell and Elena Murphy. The team was themed around incineration, with the majority of their drafted players having incineration-related modifications such as Fire Eater, Unstable, or Haunted.

During Game 2 of the showdown, Unstable Danger Zone batters Moody Cookbook and Sebastian Telephone were incinerated and replaced with, respectively, the non-canonical player Alx Pineapple and the deceased player Langley Wheeler (due to Squiddish).

Tsushima Ghosts

Tsushima Ghosts
Home Location	Tsushima Island
Team Slogan	"Game of the Year"
Emoji	👻
Rivals	Danger Zone

See the main article on this topic: Tsushima Ghosts

The Tsushima Ghosts were the team representing Roldan Melcon and Sam Rosenthal. Unlike the Danger Zone, the Ghosts did not have any particular theme to their draft selections, and many of the Ghosts' draft picks were chosen by the stream audience.

The team's name and slogan were a reference to a then-recent Game of the Year Twitter poll tournament held by the video game podcast The Besties in which Blaseball beat the popular 2020 video game Ghost of Tsushima. Despite this, neither Melcon nor Rosenthal had played Ghost of Tsushima at the time of the Showdown.

During Game 2 of the showdown, Unstable Ghosts batter Pudge Nakamoto was incinerated and replaced with the non-canonical player Denim Chilly.

Draft

Players

Prior to the start of the series, each team took turns selecting an existing player to be drafted to their team. Each team selected nine players for their Lineup, but only three for their Rotation (due to the best-of-3 format).

Released players and Coffee Cup guest team players were forbidden from being drafted. Each team was allowed to draft up to two deceased players from the Hall of Flame, and up to two players from the Shadows of Internet League Blaseball teams. All other players had to be selected from the active rosters of active teams at the time of the Showdown.

By guitar pick flip, the Tsushima Ghosts were given first choice. The order of selected draft players is listed below:

Team		Roster Location	Player	Source Team/Location	Notes
	Tsushima Ghosts	Lineup (1)	Nagomi Mcdaniel	Hawai'i Fridays	The Ghosts initially tried to pick Axel Trololol for their Rotation, but were unable to do so due to Trololol having been Released.
	Danger Zone	Lineup (1)	Jaxon Buckley	Philly Pies
	Tsushima Ghosts	Rotation (1)	Wyatt Pothos	Breckenridge Jazz Hands
	Danger Zone	Rotation (1)	Burke Gonzales	Mexico City Wild Wings
	Tsushima Ghosts	Rotation (2)	PolkaDot Patterson	Canada Moist Talkers	This pick was selected by the stream audience.
	Danger Zone	Lineup (2)	Margarito Nava	Boston Flowers
	Tsushima Ghosts	Lineup (2)	Valentine Games	Unlimited Tacos
	Danger Zone	Lineup (3)	Moody Cookbook	Hall of Flame	The Danger Zone's first allowed Hall of Flame pick.
	Tsushima Ghosts	Lineup (3)	Jessica Telephone	Kansas City Breath Mints
	Danger Zone	Lineup (4)	Reese Clark	Houston Spies
	Tsushima Ghosts	Lineup (4)	Fitzgerald Blackburn	Houston Spies
	Danger Zone	Lineup (5)	Alston Cerveza	Canada Moist Talkers
	Tsushima Ghosts	Lineup (5)	Richmond Harrison	Hades Tigers	This pick was selected by the audience.
	Danger Zone	Lineup (6)	Sebastian Telephone	Hall of Flame	The Danger Zone's second allowed Hall of Flame pick.
	Tsushima Ghosts	Lineup (6)	Pudge Nakamoto	Kansas City Breath Mints	This pick was selected by the audience.
	Danger Zone	Lineup (7)	Goodwin Morin	Seattle Garages
	Tsushima Ghosts	Rotation (3)	Mike Townsend	Seattle Garages (Shadows)	The Ghosts' first allowed Shadows pick.
	Danger Zone	Lineup (8)	Esme Ramsey	Charleston Shoe Thieves
	Tsushima Ghosts	Lineup (7)	Pitching Machine	Seattle Garages
	Danger Zone	Rotation (2)	Forrest Best	Baltimore Crabs	This pick was allowed despite the Crabs having Ascended by this point, due to them technically still being "active" in the Big Leagues.
	Tsushima Ghosts	Lineup (8)	Lars Taylor	Hellmouth Sunbeams
	Danger Zone	Lineup (9)	Fish Summer	Canada Moist Talkers
	Tsushima Ghosts	Lineup (9)	York Silk	Canada Moist Talkers	This pick was selected by the audience.
	Danger Zone	Rotation (3)	Sutton Bishop	Hellmouth Sunbeams

This resulted in the following initial rosters:

Danger Zone Lineup Rotation Jaxon Buckley Margarito Nava Moody Cookbook Reese Clark Alston Cerveza Sebastian Telephone Goodwin Morin Esme Ramsey Fish Summer Burke Gonzales Forrest Best Sutton Bishop

Tsushima Ghosts Lineup Rotation Nagomi Mcdaniel Valentine Games Jessica Telephone Fitzgerald Blackburn Richmond Harrison Pudge Nakamoto Pitching Machine Lars Taylor York Silk Wyatt Pothos PolkaDot Patterson Mike Townsend

Weather

Following the player draft, each team selected two Weather conditions to form the random Weather pool for the series.

Team		Weather
	Tsushima Ghosts	Black Hole
	Tsushima Ghosts	Solar Eclipse
	Danger Zone	Solar Eclipse
	Danger Zone	Solar Eclipse

Games

Game	Away Team	Score			Home Team	Pitchers		Weather
1	Danger Zone	3	-	4	Tsushima Ghosts	Burke Gonzales	Wyatt Pothos	Solar Eclipse
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 R H 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 3 9 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 8 The sim briefly broke in the top of the 9th inning, halting the game while Joel Clark fixed the issue. The Ghosts Shamed the Danger Zone in the bottom of the 11th to win the game.
2	Tsushima Ghosts	1	-	5	Danger Zone	PolkaDot Patterson	Forrest Best	Solar Eclipse
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 7 1 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 X 5 10 Prior to this game, the "Weather dial" had been "cranked up" by Joel Clark. During this game, all end-of-inning messages had "Go Donate to NAMI!" appended to them. In the bottom of the 6th, a Rogue Umpire incinerated Unstable Danger Zone batter Moody Cookbook, who was replaced by Alx Pineapple. The Instability chained to Ghosts batter Pudge Nakamoto. In the bottom of the 6th, a Rogue Umpire incinerated Unstable Squiddish Danger Zone batter Sebastian Telephone, who was replaced by Langley Wheeler from the Hall of Flame. The Instability chained to Danger Zone batter Esme Ramsey. In the top of the 7th, a Rogue Umpire incinerated Unstable Ghosts batter Pudge Nakamoto, who was replaced by Denim Chilly. The Instability chained to Ghosts batter Richmond Harrison. There were four additional attempted incinerations (two on Danger Zone batter Reese Clark, two on Ghosts batter Nagomi Mcdaniel) that were prevented by the target's Fire Eater modification.